On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 07:28:43AM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2026-08-27, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > BTW, personally I stay away from UUIDs and use things like labels > > instead, but admittedly I don't know of any mechanism to name disks (as > > opposed to partitions). > > Labels are a way to identify a group of devices while uuid identify an > unique device (when you don't force the uuid). > You can label a disk. I don't remember well but I think I did it while > setting a partition table. Probably with fdisk.
You actually label the partition table, no? Some of my "disks" (OK, they are USB sticks, but hey) don't have a partition table (for example, my backup disk has "directly" a LUKS, whithin which is an ext4) Windows machines look pretty confused when they see it :-) Cheers -- t
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